Posts Tagged ‘sex workers’

Vote Yes on K in San Francisco

My good friend (and loyal Pinko follower) Sienna has a great piece up today on Alternet about San Francisco’s “Proposition K,” would prohibit the use of public funds to enforce laws criminalizing prostitution, and mandate that police investigate crimes against sex workers. The law, Sienna writes, completely shifts the landscape for sex workers and could [...]

Recession of 2008, bad for sex work?

My absolute favorite writer for The Nation, JoAnn Wypijewski, has an interesting piece out today that looks at sex workers as a bellwether for the struggling economy. Like beauticians or personal trainers, she writes, sex work is a profession where the depths of recession can be measured in real time. 
In hard times a client might [...]